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Hi, starting today a pink bar at the top of my outlook page stating 'From February 1st, you'll need more storage to send or receive emails.' then provides 2 links to 'Manage Storage' & 'Get More Storage'. There is a second window bottom left hand side stating in red font 'Microsoft Storage' '14.6GB used of 5GB (292%)' 'Get More Storage'. What is going on? I've had this account for 10 + years.
Configuring preferences and options in Outlook.com
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Good luck filling up 15 GB with email that contains no attachments but text only. Whoever decided to count email attachments towards the lower 5 GB limit is really high on drug.
As I said people are getting ahead of themselves, and jumping to conclusions... attachments are included in 15 GB :) The screen confirms it.
In this context, no one is high on drugs.
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You'll be back swearing at them when you see 2 Storage (Microsoft Storage and EMail Storage) in the Storage option.
Changes to Microsoft 365 email features and storage https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/changes-to-microsoft-365-email-features-and-storage-e888d746-61e5-49e3-9bd1-94b88e9be988
Changes to cloud storage
Starting February 1, 2023, cloud storage used across Microsoft 365 apps and services will include Outlook.com attachments data and OneDrive data.
You'll be back swearing at them when you see 2 Storage (Microsoft Storage and EMail Storage) in the Storage option.
Changes to Microsoft 365 email features and storage https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/changes-to-microsoft-365-email-features-and-storage-e888d746-61e5-49e3-9bd1-94b88e9be988
Changes to cloud storage
Starting February 1, 2023, cloud storage used across Microsoft 365 apps and services will include Outlook.com attachments data and OneDrive data.
I already see two sections one email Storage and one Microsoft storage
email quota as [15 GB ]and One drive quota as [5gb]
As long as your 5 GB storage is below 5 GB you're fine. When you start using your email to send/receive large attachments, you'll use up that 5 GB limit fairly quick. This change won't affect me because I have only a few MB in my Microsoft Storage.
After speaking with customer support, I was assured this was a"global issue' that 'engineers are working on' and was told not to bother deleting anything.
So... hold tight, I guess? Silly. I wouldn't have ever seen the warning if I hadn't briefly had to log into webmail.